Pegau

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Pegau
Coat of arms	Location
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Saxony
Admin. region	Leipzig
District	Leipziger Land
Municipal assoc.	Pegau
Town subdivisions	3
Mayor	Peter Bringer
Basic statistics
Area	21.61 km² (8.3 sq mi)
Elevation	127 m  (417 ft)
Population	4,768  (31/12/2005)
- Density	221 /km² (571 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	L
Postal code	04523
Area codes	03 42 96
Website	www.pegau.de Coordinates: 51°10′0″N 12°15′0″E / 51.16667, 12.25

Pegau, a town in Leipziger Land a district in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, situated in a fertile country, on the Weiße Elster, 18 m. S.W. from Leipzig by the railway to Zeitz.

It has two Evangelical churches, that of St. Lawrence being a fine Gothic structure, a 16th-century town-hall; a very old hospital and an agricultural school. In the 19th Century its industries embrace the manufacture of felt, boots and metal wares.

Pegau grew up round a monastery founded in 1096, but does not appear as a town before the close of the 12th century. Markets were held here and its prosperity was further enhanced by its position on a main road running east and west. In the monastery, which was dissolved in 1539, a valuable chronicle was compiled, the Annales pcgevienses, covering the period from 1039 to 1227.

[edit] External links

• Town of Pegau in German

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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